I know some people don’t like the cloud services thing but I’m okay with a hacker controlling how bright my LED is or seeing how often my sump pump comes on for now. When I get smarter I will put a server in the house of my own making and control real things with these!

I’m going to try getting IFTTT integration up next, but what I really want is to be able to log into a server over SSH and send and receive text. I’d just set up my server-side to run as the login shell of that user and use an rsa key to secure the account. Super simple, and it would let me spew whatever diagnostic I like at the server-side.

So far I have gotten the wemos d1, and the wemos d1 mini to work with me pc. I haven’t been able to get the LoLin board to work or the esp 01 usb board. I think with the esp01 board looks basic but I might have to add something to to it. I yet have to try the easp03 and the esp12 and the esp8266 pro/ looks like pro mini.

So Im really just getting into esp 8266. Im just thrilled that it work on one of my pcs. I wonder what kind of things I should make?
Well this datasheet helps a bit. Seeing I know a fair bit about AVRs and not very much about esp8266.https://www.elecrow.com/download/ESP-12S_User_Manual.pdf